Robert Steinberg, 61; a physician who helped elevate America's appreciation of chocolate after launching the Scharffen Berger chocolate company (Sept. 17)

Edfred L. Shannon Jr., 82; the longtime chief executive of oil-drilling firm Santa Fe International made headlines in the 1980s when he brokered the sale of his company to a petroleum firm owned by the Kuwaiti government (Sept. 21)

Edsel D. Dunford, 73; Cold War aerospace engineer served as president of TRW Inc. (Oct. 3)